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title: "FreeBSD 6.2 Open Issues"
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<p>This is a list of open issues that need to be resolved for FreeBSD
  6.2.  If you have any updates for this list, please e-mail
  re@FreeBSD.org.</p>

<ul>
  <li><a href="#major" shape="rect">Major issues</a></li>
  <li><a href="#testing" shape="rect">Testing foci</a></li>
  <li><a href="#stresstest" shape="rect">Problems Discovered by Kernel Stress Test Suite</a></li>
</ul>

<h3>Major issues for 6.2-RELEASE</h3>

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<table class="tblbasic">
  <tr class="heading">
    <th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Issue</th>
    <th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Status</th>
    <th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Responsible</th>
    <th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Description</th>
  </tr>

  <tr><td colspan="4" rowspan="1">No pending major issues.</td></tr>
</table>

<h3>Testing foci for 6.2-RELEASE</h3>

<a name="testing" shape="rect" id="testing"></a>
<table class="tblbasic">
  <tr class="heading">
    <th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Issue</th>
    <th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Status</th>
    <th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Responsible</th>
    <th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Description</th>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">bce(4) stability fixes</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><font color="orange">Needs&nbsp;testing</font></td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Scott Long</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Several stability fixes for bce(4) were merged from HEAD to
      RELENG_6 around 20061024.  Initial testing results have been
      promising, but more testing reports would be useful.</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">em(4) stability fixes</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><font color="orange">Needs&nbsp;testing</font></td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Scott Long, Jack F. Vogel, Gleb Smirnoff, Kris Kennaway</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Several difficult-to-diagnose stability issues have been
      observed in the em(4) driver since August.  As of 20061027, a
      newer driver provided by Intel (version 6.2.9) has been
      committed to RELENG_6 for testing.
      <b>UPDATE</b>:  Additional changes committed 20061110 fix some
      other observed stability problems and restore missing jumbo
      frame functionality.</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">sysinstall(8) kernel selection fix</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><font color="orange">Needs&nbsp;testing</font></td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Erwin Lansing</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">A bug in sysinstall(8) could result in it failing to install a
      kernel on a new disk if the user did not choose a distribution
      from the distribution menu.  This is believed to have been
      fixed as of 20061029, but could use more testing.</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">ggated(8)</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><font color="orange">Needs&nbsp;testing</font></td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Pawe&#322; Jakub Dawidek</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">A recently-committed patch to ggated(8) is believed to fix
      some fairly serious problems, as reported in PR
      <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=104829" shape="rect">kern/104829</a>.</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">devfs(5) fixes</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><font color="orange">Needs&nbsp;testing</font></td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Konstantin Belousov</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Several deadlocks and locking bugs have been fixed in devfs(5).</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">tty(4) fixes</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><font color="orange">Needs&nbsp;testing</font></td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Martin Blapp</td>
    <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Several workarounds have been committed for known problems in
      the tty(4) layer.</td>
  </tr>

</table>

<h3>Stress Test Panics</h3>

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<p>The system is continuously being subjected to Peter Holm's <a href="http://www.holm.cc/stress/" shape="rect">Kernel Stress Test Suite</a>.  The
  following issues have recently been discovered from this test
  suite.</p>


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